Auschwitz or how good people can do evil: an ethical interpretation of the perpetrators and the victims of the Holocaust in light of the French thinker Tzvetan Todorov

Explores the question of what Auschwitz can teach us about the origins of human evil. The Nazi's did not violate the social contract of their time by killing the Jews; by their participatiion, Germans did not break the law, but were obedient to it. There is a physical boundary to the amount one can kill out of hate, fanaticiasm or sadism. Goodness was not completely absent.